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Author | : John R. Wunder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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A collection of first-person accounts of the trauma of the 1930s in the Heartland, assessed by historians from the distance of several decades. Section I offers accounts from memoirs and from newspapers and magazines of the 1930s, describing the Farmer's March on Washington, formation of the Farmer's Union, the failure of rainmaking machines, and the nation's reactions to increasing hardship. Section II presents retrospective analysis from the 1960s through the 1990s, offering an understanding of the natural, economic, and political facets of the disaster. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Ronald Reis |
Publisher | : Infobase Holdings, Inc |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2021-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438199643 |
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Housewives hung wet sheets and blankets over windows, struggling to seal every crack with gummed paper strips. A man avoided shaking hands, lest the static electricity gathered from a dust storm knock his greeter flat. Children's tears turned to mud. Horses chewed feed filled with dust particles that sandpapered their gums raw. Dead cattle, when pried open, were filled with pounds of gut-clogging dirt. The simplest thing in life, taking a breath, became life-threatening. The Dust Bowl conditions during the "Dirty Thirties" were no blind stroke of nature, but had their origins in human error and in the misuse of the land. The Dust Bowl, Updated Edition recounts the factors that led to the Dust Bowl conditions, how those affected coped, and what can be learned from the tragedy, considered by many to be America's worst prolonged environmental disaster.
Author | : Caroline Henderson |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2012-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806187948 |
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In May 1936 Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace wrote to Caroline Henderson to praise her contributions to American "understanding of some of our farm problems." His comments reflected the national attention aroused by Henderson’s articles, which had been published in Atlantic Monthly since 1931. Even today, Henderson’s articles are frequently cited for her vivid descriptions of the dust storms that ravaged the Plains. Caroline Henderson was a Mount Holyoke graduate who moved to Oklahoma’s panhandle to homestead and teach in 1907. This collection of Henderson’s letters and articles published from 1908 to1966 presents an intimate portrait of a woman’s life in the Great Plains. Her writing mirrors her love of the land and the literature that sustained her as she struggled for survival. Alvin O. Turner has collected and edited Henderson’s published materials together with her private correspondence. Accompanying biographical sketch, chapter introductions, and annotations provide details on Henderson’s life and context for her frequent literary allusions and comments on contemporary issues.
Author | : Don Brown |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0547815506 |
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The causes and results of the Dust Bowl and how the lessons learned are still used today. Presented in comic book format.
Author | : Ann Marie Low |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1984-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780803279131 |
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The author recounts her experiences growing up in North Dakota from 1928 to 1937 the years of the Dust bowl and Depression
Author | : Marcia Amidon Lusted |
Publisher | : Nomad Press |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2016-02-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 161930337X |
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In The Great Depression: Experience the 1930s From the Dust Bowl to the New Deal, readers ages 12 to 15 investigate the causes, duration, and outcome of the Great Depression, the period of time when more than 20 percent of Americans were unemployed. They discover how people coped, what new inventions came about, and how the economics of the country affected the arts, sciences, and politics of the times. The decade saw the inauguration of many social programs that Americans still benefit from today. The combination of President Roosevelt’s New Deal and the dawning of World War II gave enough economic stimulus to boost the United States out of its slump and into a new era of recovery. In The Great Depression, students explore what it meant to live during this time. Projects such as designing a 1930s outfit and creating a journal from the point of view of a kid whose family is on the road help infuse the content with realism and practicality. In-depth investigations of primary sources from the period allow readers to engage in further, independent study of the times. Additional materials include a glossary, a list of current reference works, and Internet resources.
Author | : Albert Marrin |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2012-10-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0142425796 |
Download Years of Dust Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the 1930's, great rolling walls of dust swept across the Great Plains. The storms buried crops, blinded animals, and suffocated children. It was a catastrophe that would change the course of American history as people struggled to survive in this hostile environment, or took the the roads as Dust Bowl refugees. Here, in riveting, accessible prose, and illustrated with moving historical quotations and photographs, acclaimed historian Albert Marrin explains the causes behind the disaster and investigates the Dust Bowl's imact on the land and the people. Both a tale of natural destruction and a tribute to those who refused to give up, this is a beautiful exploration of an important time in our country's past.
Author | : Janette-Susan Bailey |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2016-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137589078 |
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This book takes the Dust Bowl story beyond Depression America to describe the ‘dust bowl’ concept as a transnational phenomenon, where during World War Two, US and Australian national mythologies converged. Dust Bowl begins with Depression America, the New Deal and the US Dust Bowl where massive dust storms darkened the skies of the Great Plains and triggered a major national and international media event and generated imagery describing a failed yeoman dream, Dust Bowl refugees, and the coming of a new American Desert. Dust Bowl traces the evolution of this imagery to Australia, World War Two and New Deal-inspired stories of conservation-mindedness, soil erosion and enemies, sheep-farmers and traitors, creeping deserts and human extinction, super-human housewives and natural disaster and finally, grand visions of a nation-building post-war scheme for Australia’s iconic Snowy River‒that vision became the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme.
Author | : James Noble Gregory |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195071368 |
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Gregory reaches into the migrants' lives to reveal both their economic trials and their impact on California's culture and society. He traces the development of an 'Okie subculture' which is now an essential element of California's cultural landscape.
Author | : Allison Lassieur |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1515742628 |
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"Describes the people and events of the U.S. Dust Bowl. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of a farmer, a migrant worker, and a government photographer"--Provided by publisher.